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Thyroid cancer may be present 5-10% of patients with [[thyroid nodule]]s including [[incidentaloma]]s.<ref name="pmid9027275">{{cite journal |author=Tan GH, Gharib H |title=Thyroid incidentalomas: management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging |journal=Ann. Intern. Med. |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=226–31 |year=1997 |month=February |pmid=9027275 |doi= |url=http://www.annals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9027275 |issn=}}</ref> | Thyroid cancer may be present 5-10% of patients with [[thyroid nodule]]s including [[incidentaloma]]s.<ref name="pmid9027275">{{cite journal |author=Tan GH, Gharib H |title=Thyroid incidentalomas: management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging |journal=Ann. Intern. Med. |volume=126 |issue=3 |pages=226–31 |year=1997 |month=February |pmid=9027275 |doi= |url=http://www.annals.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=9027275 |issn=}}</ref> | ||
===Staging information=== | |||
{{PDQ-staging|http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/pdq/treatment/thyroid/HealthProfessional/page4}} | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Revision as of 16:24, 13 April 2010
Epidemiology
A study of autopsies in Finland found that 36% of subjects had papillary thyroid cancer.[1]
Thyroid cancer may be present 5-10% of patients with thyroid nodules including incidentalomas.[2]
Staging information
Thyroid cancer staging information from the National Cancer Institute's Physician Data Query
References
- ↑ Harach HR, Franssila KO, Wasenius VM (August 1985). "Occult papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. A "normal" finding in Finland. A systematic autopsy study". Cancer 56 (3): 531–8. PMID 2408737. [e]
- ↑ Tan GH, Gharib H (February 1997). "Thyroid incidentalomas: management approaches to nonpalpable nodules discovered incidentally on thyroid imaging". Ann. Intern. Med. 126 (3): 226–31. PMID 9027275. [e]